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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:34:20 +0000
From:      Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>
To:        brain_damaged <brain_damaged@florida-wireless.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freebsd security howto question
Message-ID:  <20011115173420.A432@twincat.vladsempire.net>
In-Reply-To: <200111151750.AA228196552@florida-wireless.com>; from brain_damaged@florida-wireless.com on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:50:59PM -0500
References:  <200111151750.AA228196552@florida-wireless.com>

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On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:50:59PM -0500, brain_damaged wrote:
> "One thing you can do is to tell your syslog daemon NOT to listen
> to syslog messages from other systems by running your syslog daemon
> in secure mode. To do so, add "-s" switch in your /etc/rc.conf 
file."
>   
> 
> if i do this i get an error so i assume he/she mistyped it or wrote
> it thinking someone with more intelligence would better understand
> what to do :-)
> 
> what should actually go there ? is it to be in some other file
> like syslog.conf ? if so how tho ?
> 
> thanks
> hacked once paranoid for life
> 
You need to put this in /etc/rc.conf
syslogd_flags="-s"

I am running 4.4-STABLE and that is the default.  I don't know if it 
would be different for any other version of FreeBSD.  You can check on 
your system by doing $grep syslogd /etc/defaults/rc.conf
If the flags line comes up with a -s then you are already running 
syslogd in secure mode.

Josh

p.s. You email had lines that were over 100 characters long.  Please 
set your mailer to wrap lines at 70 characters.  A lot of us use text 
mailers that don't deal with long lines very well at all.

p.p.s. I prefer the phrase, 'Once bitten, Twice shy.'  :)



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